Internships

Internships A co-op or an intern is extremely important in our eyes. Most of our candidates for our entry level positions come through our co-op program or internship program, so to us it’s invaluable. You basically have what could be e uivalent to one year of experience before you graduate, which puts you at a level above all of the graduates that don’t have any wor! experience in their field. "hat’s important about an internship with our company is that it gives you the first level of leadership experience and the first, I guess, immersion into the environment. #he interns that I have had the opportunity to wor! with have an advantage over direct hires, because there’s no transition involved, it’s simply moving into their real position. I find that an internship is definitely a foothold within the company, and it does assist very much along the way. If someone’s interning and they go full-time, they’re ready to step into a role full-time, and be above the curve. $oing an internship prior to graduation is always important and it loo!s wonderful to an employer whenever they’re reviewing your resume %asically you get &ob experience with an organi'ation, and you get a real feel for how the wor!ing world wor!s. Internship experience we find adds a level of maturity to our new hires that come in, especially our college recruits. #hey have, again, a better understanding of the wor! environment, and I do feel that that comes from an internship. A part time &ob maybe, but an internship gives you a true sense of the business environment, and I thin! it ma!es a difference. Internships are really important. "hen we loo! for new grads we loo! for students who have done internships, one or two at least. $efinitely get yourself into a good internship. Internships are great because you can, shall we say, dabble on what you maybe thin! you want to do, and if you don’t li!e doing that after your internship then you want to ta!e another internship in the areas where you thin! you really want to get in to. Internships give you a great !nowledge, a base !nowledge of experience, and it’s a really good selling point when you are loo!ing for new positions and a new career after you graduate. I believe the importance of an internship is in finding out not only areas of interest that you have in your particular discipline, whether it be computer science or other disciplines in engineering, but also to find out what fit you thin! you are for a particular company, to !now what things about a particular company you find interesting, the !ind of wor! environment you li!e to be in, things of that nature, so that you can find out what sort of organi'ation you want to wor! for, and set your goals that way.